Meeting tomorrow of City activists- No, it's not the May Day Rally.

The meeting tomorrow at Hollywood Community Center has a lot of community activists and just plainly interested people in the well-being of the City working on restoring some good governement to L.A. And you can see this is an entirely different group of persons than are meeting and marching down South Broadway on Saturday, also hoping to affect some changes of their own.

From an email today from Daniel Wiseman, one prominent individual among the many, comes an invitation to observe and/or participate in the items among the 3 meetings that will be on the morning's schedule.

PLEASE, join with other NCASH's, tomorrow, SATURDAY, May 1, 2010 at the Hollywood Community Center (Fountain & Wilcox Streets) for...

9:30 - DWP Committee Meeting - recent ECAF raises, Mr. Smith's 8 DWP-related Motions, more

10:30 - LANC Coalition Meeting - DWP, City Budget, Planning Department, Studio City Board Member removal, more

12:30 - NCs' Budget Advocates Meeting - Current Year Budget Crisis (?insolvency), Mayor's FY2010-2011 Proposal, B&F

He prefaced this with this word on the purpose of the meetings and actions, generally,

How many times have you heard someone say, "No one told ME about that?"
- Sometimes, that is true.
- Sometimes, our City Officials seem to be withholding vital information from us. Sometimes, they seem to ignore us, entirely.
- Sometimes, the reporters from the Times and Daily news don't ask for and don't print our opinions.
- Sometimes we NCASHs (aka Neighborhood Council ACTIVE Stakeholders)
fail in our "outreach" efforts, too.
OOUTREACH isn't OUTREACH unless the people we are OUTREACHing to REACH BACK back to us.

So...we need to put our thoughts together
we need to put our thoughts into print.
we need to get those thoughts printed.
we need to get those printings read.
we need to hear from our readers.
Then...we need to start from the top (put our thoughts together) and begin the next cycle. (Recycling is good.)

LANC Coalition's and NC Budget Advocates' statements and Minutes are now being posted on BudgetLA.org. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, who said, "Democracy it is the worst form of government...except for all other forms of government", we could say, " http://www.budgetla.org/ is the worst website to use...except for all other websites (real or imagined).

Let's publicize this activity.
Let's read and respond to its content, regularly.
Let's tell our friends (and some of our enemies) about it and encourage them all to be more friendly.

A worthwhile endeavor to sample if you are not sure about a more firm commitment, and you can see a lot of what's really happening at City Hall that doesn't get to the news(papers).